The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1887-10-27

say to you: 81 was introduced to games Of
chance in the year 1887, in Brooklyn. NJ
your house, and went on from that spoTG
to something more exciting, and went on
down until lost my business and lost nnv
morals and lost my soul, and these chains
tnat You see on my wrists and feet are tho
chains of gamester's doom, and am on
my way to the gamblers hell" Honey a
the start, eternal catastrophe at the last.
Stock gam ling comes into the same cat
alCpr", " mn o w. vhil ~ot;rr, IN r@
into Wall street, New York, or State street,
Boston, or Third street, Philadelphia, and
depo,iting n small sum of money run the
risk of taking out a fortune. Many men
are doing an honest and safe business in
the stock market, and you are in ignorance
i you do not know that 1t is just as legiti-
mate to deal in stocks as to deal in coffee,
or sugar, or flour. But nearly all the out
siders who go there on a little financial ex-
cursion lose all. The old spiders eat MP
the unsuspecting flies. / had friend who
put his hand on his hip pocket and said to
me in substance, 81 have there the value
of Sl5O, 900" His home is to- day penniless.
What was the matter? Wall street. or
the vast majority who are victimi2ed you
hear not one word. One great stock An0
BOoo uON Us anu WDOle Columns OF n0Wbph-
pers discuss their fraud, or their disaste',
and we are presented with their features
and their biography. But where one suoh
famous firm SINKS 500 unknown men sink
with them. The great steamer goes down
and all the little boats are swallowed in the
same engulfment. Gambling is gambling
whether in stocks or bTeadstuffs, or dice,
or race track betting. Exhilaratien at the
start and a raving brain, and a shattered
nervous system, and a sacrificed property,
and destroyed soul at last. Young man,
buy no lottery tickets, purchase no prizs
packages, bet on no baseball games or
yacht racing, have no faith in luck, an
swer no mysterious circulars proposing
great income for small investment, shoe
away the buzzards that hover around our
hotels trying to enlrap strangers, Go out and
make an honest living. Have God on your
side and be candidate for Heaven. Re-
member all the paths of sin are banked
with flowers at the start, and there are
plenty of helpful hands to fetch the gay
charger to your door and hold the stirruP
while you mount. But further on the
horse plunges to the bit in q slough mex
trlcable. The best honey is not like that
which Jonathan took on the end of the rod
and brought to his lips, but that which
God puts on the banqueting table OF
Mercy, at which we are all invited to sit.
was reading of a boy among the noun
tains of Switzerland ascending danger
GUS place with his father and the guides.
The boy stopped on the edge of the cliff
and said: "There is flower l mean to
get." "COme away from there, said the
father; "you will fall Off" "No," said he,
81 must get that beautiful flower" and the
guides rushed toward him to pull him back,
l.. a 4
it, as he fell 1000 feet. Birds of prey
were seen few days after circling through
the air and lowering gradually to the place
where the corpse lay. Why seek flowers
off the edge Of precipice when you may
walk knee deep amid the blooms of the
very paradise Of God2 When man may
sit at kings banquet why will he 40
down the steps and contend for the gristl0
and bones of hounds kennel? "Sweeter
than honey and the honey comb" says
David, "is the truth of God" with honey
out of the rock would I have satisfied
thee" says God to the recreant. Here is
honey gathered from the blossoms of trees
of life, and with rod made out of the
wood of the cross dip it up for all your
souls.
The poet Hesiod tells of an ambrosia and
nectar, the drinking of which would make
men live forever, and one sip of this honey
from the Eternal Rock will gilo you i'm
mortal life with God. Come off of the
malarial Levels of sinful life. Come and
live on IT, uplands of grace where the
vineyards sun themselves. Oh, taste and
see that the Lord is gracious. Be happy
now and happy forever. For those who
take different course the honey will turn
to gall. For many things have admired
Percy Shelley, the great English poet, but
deplore the fact that it was great sweet
ness to him to dishonor God. Tho poem,
"Queen Nab" has in il the maligning Of
the Deity. The infdel poet was impious
enough 10 ask for Rowland Hills Surrey
Chapel, that he might denounce the Chris
tian religion. He was in great glee
against God and the truth. But he visited
Italy, and one day on the Mediterranean
with two friends, in boat which was
twenty-four feet long, he was coming
toward shore, when an hours squall struck
the water. Agentleman standing on shore,
through glass, saw many boats tossed in
this squall, but all outrode the terror ex-
cept this one, that in which Shelley, the
inidel poet, and his two friends we're sail
ing. That never came ashore, but the
bodies of two Of the occupants wero
washed upon the beach, one of them the
poet. funeral pyre was built on the sea
shore by some classic friends, and the two
bodies were consumed. Poor Shelley!
lie would have no God while he lived,
and he probably had no God when he died.
"The Lord knoweth the way of the
righteous, bat the way of the ungodly shall
perish"